by callipygias Sat Sep 29, 2012 2:44 pm
I've met many, many griefers during my hundreds of hours of Burg co-op, and a few of them have seemed to be pretty good. One of them has killed me as many times as I've killed him. I wondered why someone apparently capable of holding his own would be a long term Burg Griefer. I got to talking to him, and like EVERY griefer he claims to be on NG+. He is sl 4, my guy is sl 6. I asked if he wanted a challenge and he said he did, so I invited him to my world (NG+7) to see if he could get to the Bell Gargoyles. Really I just wanted to support my theory that he's bad at the game and that's why he does what he does.
He died 3 or 4 times before making it to the fog door, but that's very good considering the learning curve after being thrown into NG+7 at SL 4. Once he made it to the fog door he never died again getting back to it.
Then the gargoyles. He died to the first gargoyle a few times, but on his last attempt he did really well. In fact he got him down far enough to actually get the 2nd gargoyle to come out. I knew that he wouldn't last a second against them both so I kept the 2nd gargoyle's attention away from him, but it didn't matter as the first one soon got him anyway. Even so, I was very surprised at how well he'd done.
I always assumed that the reason Griefers grief is because they're really bad at the game, be it PvE or PvP, but this guy shot that theory down. He was clearly capable of rolling through NG+ (at least) at sl 4. So why does he spend his time with his maxed out armor and Chaos Club one-shotting noobs in the Undead Burg? I tried to get him to tell me why he did it without sounding accusatory or judgemental, but all I could get out of him was that he didn't feel he was doing anything wrong, and that he played fair or something. And believe it or not he came across as a reasonable guy.
It was half an evening of Dark Souls spent with the intention of solidifying my opinion of Burg Griefers, but it had the opposite effect. Now I really don't understand them. He was unrealistically confident (see: arrogant), that much I know. After he'd said, "Thanks for the challenge," I replied, "You should see the Kings," to which he said he owns the 4 Kings and would roll right through them. I laughed and said it's an open invitation if he wants to prove that. Told him he'd get a prize if he could kill a single one of my Kings on his own. Haven't heard from him though.